Necktie-holder.



No; 889,550. IPATENTED-JUNEZ, 1903.

J1 GI NEGKTIE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 23, 1903.

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40 sents a front elevation of a stand up co JAMES 0. RYAN, or CINCINNATI, OHIO.

NECKTIE-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Application filed March 23, 1303. Serial No. 149,130.

and the object of the invention is to provide a cheap, simple and readily applied device for holding the necktie in place on the collar.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail.

In the accom anying drawings making art of this speci cation, and in which simiar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts,Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a tie holder illustrating my invention.

Fi 2 is a side elevation of that end of my ho der which, in the drawing, faces toward the right in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top or plan viewof my holder. The dotted lines accom anying this holder and substantially para lel thereto, indicate the positions of the collar bands and the shirt bands. The collar button is also indicated by dotted lines, and its position relative to the shirt bands, to the collar bands and to the holder is shown. Fi 4 is a front elevation of a piece, each figure representing a different position of certain parts of the tie in relation to the holder, the successive positions of the parts of the tie being represented in the respective successive figures. Fig. 8 reprear, and of a tie scarf made up by the wearer, into what is known as the uff or De J oinville tie. My improved ho der is combined therewith, and the position of its outer arms E, beneath the outer or front portions of. the

scarf is indicated by dotted lines.

Fi 9 re resents a front elevation of a stand up collar and of a tie scarf (the same scarf as shown in Fig. 8) made up by the wearer into what is known as the four in zontal sectional view through Fig. 1, on line The collar button is indicated by the character V. The head of the button is indicated by the character V the shank of the button by the character V and the back or base by the character V The front end portions of the collar are respectively indicated by the character WV. That button hole part of the collar through which the collar button shank passes is indicated by the character W The holder is made of one piece and preferably of any suitable elastic material. For instance, the metal of which key rings are made, may be serviceable. So also wire may be employed.

There is a center loop or yoke A, inclosing a space S opening at the top into the more contracted space S To form such spaces as S and S the arms A A of the yoke are bent so as to approach each other at this neck. The space'S affords ample room for containing the shank V of the collar button of the wearer. When the holder is placed under the collar button shank and the mouth of the space S is just below this shank, and the holder is pressed upward, the shank enters the space S and then the space S. Then the holder will be held by the friction of the device a ainst the front of the collar and the back of the head of the collar button, embracing the collar button shank and will remain in position until removed by human agency.

The arms A A are each continued and curve over forming a bend or shoulder B.

The parts of the loop C, D and E are of round wire, but the parts A, A A and the bends or shoulders B are preferably made flat, as to take up less room from front to rear at the collar button, and avoid increasing the length of the shank of the latter, see more particularly Figs. 1, 3 and 10. Each of these bends B is continued down and then around and then up constituting a bend C. The outer limb of these ends C passes up and each is continued in a bend D. The lower outer arm E of this bend D is of some length because it is designed to hold the tie piece in g served, see Figs. 3 and 10, that the rear side and forward over the part M, and that part of the holder, with the exception of the arms I E, follows substantially the curve of the forward surface of the collar. This curve is, in general, that of a large circle. But the arms E are not found in this curved surface which the other parts of the holder may be said to occupy, but are in another surface at a distance in front of the first named surface. This position of the arms E is due to the inclination of the bend of the shoulders D, namely: in a direction forward and away from the curved surface of the collar, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

Viewed from above, see Fig. 3, the shoulders or bends D extend away from their re spective adjacent parts B, C, at an inclination which may be considered nearly or substantially a diagonal direction from the surface in which the collar lies when in use. This position of the arms E is for the purpose of allowing a space between arms E and the collar, through which space the cravat, tie or scarf piece may pass, and also be prevented from rising by the shoulders D.

The mode in which the tie is applied to the holder, and in which the latter is combined therewith is as follows: The rear part of the tie piece is placed against the rear part of the collar (behind the neck) and usually under the rear collar button to prevent it rising at that point. The ends of the tie are now brought forward to the front, and one end portion M is passed under the right hand arm E, and the other end portion N under the left hand arm E, whereupon the parts will assume the position shown in Fig. 5. The end N is then passed up behind the other part of the tie M, and brought above of itself (N) which is in front of part M and of the loop A, and the parts of the tie, and of the holder, in their interrelation thereupon assume the position shown in Fig. 6. The rest of the operation of tying the tie is now to be completed in any one of the desired modes.

In Fig. 7, I have shown the tie as completed according to one of the common modes, and in Figs. 8 and 9, according to certain other modes, the ties resulting being heretofore named.

It is to be noted that the arms D, E, of the holder prevent the tie from riding up toward the chin of the wearer, or of slipping laterally around the collar as the bow of the tie which occupies the space between the arms cannot pass therein. p

The tie when completed completely covers from view the arms E and all other parts of the holder.

It will be observed that my tie holder obtains all of the advantages claimed for it in the opening portion of this specification. It is equally applicable to all forms of ties from the simple string tied in a bow to any of the complicated forms into which the De Joinville or basic tie can be folded, for the reason that it affects the tie at points where all ties are necessarily of the same shape, namely: at the band. It does away with the necessity of using a device commonly resorted to for the purpose of clasping to the shirt front the lower part of the cravat when the same is tied in the four in hand or Ascot style, said device being undesirable, in that the symmetry and puff effect of the tie isdestroyed if it be held sufficiently taut to keep it in position at and around the collar.

What I claim as new, and of my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A tie holder having the flattened loop A A, A forming the space S,.adapted to receive the shank of the collar button, the said loop being adapted to retain the said collar button shank within said loop, when so located, by friction between the device and the front of the collar and the back of the head of the collar button, the tie holder being adapted to be readily removable from the button, the tie holder being provided with the outward bends D, having the vertically downward extending arms E terminating near the line of the lower edge of the collar and free at said lower ends, the lower portion of these arms lying in advance of the curved parts A A, A and adapted to receive the tie pieces, between the parts A A, A and the arms E, and means for uniting the parts A A respectively to the upper ends of the arms E, E, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. A tie holder having the flattened loop A, forming the space S, and whose arms at their upper ends approach and form the narrower space S and having the upper bends B, continued from the arms A A and the lower bends C continued from the bends B, and the upper bends D continued from the bends C, and extended forward, and the arms E extending from the bends D downward and without the curved part of the holder, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

3. A tie holder, having the loop A, forming the space S, and its arms A A approaching each other and forming the space S and provided at each side with the bends B and C, and the bend D, continued in the hanging arm E, the loop A and bends B and C forming a curved part conforming to the curve loop A and bend B conforming to the curve assumed by the collar when in use, but the bend D extending diagonally forward from that curve, and the arms E hanging forward 5 and without the curved part of the holder,

gubstantially as andfor the purposes-speci- 5. A tie holder having the loop A, forming the space S, and its arms A A approaching 10 each other and forming the space S and provided at. each side with the bend B, and

the bend D, continued in the hanging arm E,

the loop A and bend B conforming to the curve assumed by the collar when in use, but the bend D extending forward from that 15 curve, and the arms E, hanging forward and without the curved part of the holder, the

. holder being made of wire, and the loop A, A A and the adjacent portions of the bends B being flattened, substantially as and for 20 the purposes specified JAMES 0. RYAN.

Attest:

CHARLES A. MINTEN, K. SMITH. 

